Format USB Flash drive to NTFS file system

So, you’ve a USB Flash drive, if you want to change the file system on your USB drive, here’s the way to enable NTFS on your USB Flash Drive:

Right click My Computer and select Manage.
Open the Device Manager and find your USB drive under the "Disk Drives" heading.
Right click the drive and select Properties.
Choose Policies tab and select the "Optimize for performance" option.
Click OK.
Open My Computer.
Select Format on the flash drive.
Choose NTFS in the File System dropdown box.
Device Formatting is completed.

Note: To remove a device safely without data loss use a "safely remove hardware" procedure or Eject function from Windows Explorer.

Source:→ NTFS

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linda says#4 | August 29th, 2009 at 4:03 am

tried all the above and still no go.
when i tried the convert in DOS
it says : cannot determine file system of drive
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Dewrag Dave says#3 | April 13th, 2009 at 10:22 am

I get a "cannot determine file system of drive g:" Error, now what?
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DG says#2 | January 12th, 2009 at 2:27 am

Great, Thanks for the tip.
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Pheidias Bourlas says#1 | January 11th, 2009 at 5:13 am

Why are you bothering with FORMAT? No need to FORMAT. Plus, it's not good to change the policy, even if you have NTFS usb stick. There a better way. Just open a DOS (Command Prompt) window, give (e.g. if your USB is volume F: and has label "my_volume"):

CONVERT F: my_volume /FS:NTFS

and that's it!
Simple, quick, safe and always working!